I pretty much followed the existing use path. At one point, the path diverged, and I took the upper one.
Steve, it really struck me in your quote that you summed up the life of a mountaineer.
Harvey, this should be added to your list of quotes.
Ken, now you have done it. I probably only have a rare Muir or Clarence King quote for the Sierra somewhere, but not a Cosner.
I did find some other kinda sorta related quotes. Easy to just cut and paste these, so I am sorry to be hogging Steve's thread, but here goes:
...persons who ascend hills merely for pleasure. They have no particular principles, except the general maxim that it is better to be at the top of the hill than the bottom. R.L.G. Irving,
The Mountain Way, page 56
When we see a hill we are sooner or later driven to try and get to the top. We cannot let it stand there for ever without our scrambling up it Sir Francis Younghusband
The Epic of Mount Everest, page 12
1st part trilogy: 1921 1st British Expedition
Found it easier than we expected, which only goes to show the value of an oft quoted piece of mountaineering advice by Dr. Longstaff, that 'you must go and rub your nose in a place before being certain that it won't 'go.' ' HW Tilman,
The Ascent of Nanda Devi, in
The Seven Mountain-Travel Books, page 164
